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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  thecurrentga.org/…/data-centers-consume-massive-a…

  Some use up the water through evaporation, so they constantly draw water. Some “consume” the water, meaning they have a closed system of cooling water, but that uses a lot more electricity than evaporative cooling, which also uses water to generate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It's not a clone of D:OS2': 6 big takeaways from our interview with Larian after the reveal of Divinity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely loved BG3, and I I haven’t liked an RPG since Dragon’s Quest 2 back in 1988. I plan on picking up DOS2 in 2 weeks, so if you remind me I can let you know how the two games compare. BG3 was a revelation to me, opening my eyes to a completely new way of enjoying games. The writing was good, the game-play good, the graphics good. BUT!! If I play DOS2 and also like that, then I could give you that feedback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I predict that this thing that is really great right now will become bad, so instead of enjoying it while it is good I’m just going to assume it will definitely go bad at some unknown time in the future and boycott it before it gets there so I can tell everyone I was right in the past.

  Sounds logical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Power source is only one impact. Water for cooling is even bigger. There are data centers pumping out huge amounts of heat in places like AZ, TX, CA where water is scarce and temps are high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. My company has a database of all technical papers written by employees in the last 30-ish years. Nearly all of these contain proprietary information from other companies (we deal with tons of other companies and have access to their data), so we can’t build a public LLM nor use a public LLM. So we created an internal-only LLM that is only trained on our data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m normally not one to kink shame, but I’m shaming you right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Changing the language of “Hogwarts Legacy”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can, and I find it fun. Some other reviewers don’t like it, and it can be clunky, but it is still fun for me to levitate someone and then slam them into a wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not bootlicking, you weirdo. It’s recognizing when one thing is right and one thing is wrong. Just because a company does something doesn’t make it automatically wrong.

  I know it might be a crazy concept that is hard to grasp, but the world isn’t totally black and white. It’s almost like bad people can do good things sometimes. And good people can do bad things sometimes. Your way of thinking is exactly the way Republicans justify all the evil shit they do. They are religious, which makes them good people, and therefore everything they do is good. In your case, you think a corporation is bad and therefore everything they do is bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The person who owns a trademark or copyright has a right to use that trademark and the onus to defend that trademark from other people using it. We used to allow anyone to call themselves anything they way, and it turned out badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Theft is when something you own is taken away. The squatter never owned the domain, only registered to use it. In this case, ICANN owns the domain and allows a registrar to handle who can use that domain. ICANN sets strict rules on how domains can be used, and the squatter broke those rules.

  Maybe the judge is a little smarter on actual laws than you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t about an intangible thing being property. This is about the way domains are controlled. Nobody owns a domain, they register the right to use a domain. All domains are controlled and “owned” by ICANN, which allows registrars to handle who can use domains.

  They are not anyone’s property.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The point isn’t that intangible objects can’t be property. The point is that domains are not legally owned by people or corporations. You can pay for the right to use one, but you don’t own it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What sucks is that a lot of commercial companies in L.A. use the .la domain, which is blocked by my company’s proxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another commented said Fully Remappable Controls, but I want to foot stomp it. On PC games, I use EDSF instead of WASD, but if some controls can’t be remapped and they overlap with EDSF then I won’t play the game.

  On console, I fucking hate that Elden Ring maps “crouch/sneak” to pushing down on the movement stick. I’m furiously fighting for my fucking life against a boss that attacks every 0.7 seconds. I’m moving that stick as fast as I can, which means I’m pushing hard on it. It sucks to be trying to run away from an attack but then start crouching and sneaking away from a 40ft tall axe coming down on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fully remappable controls is my biggest wish. I hate WASD and swear by EDSF, but some games like Fallout 4 hardcode some controls. E is hardcoded to “interact” or “open door” or something, but the game DOES let you map “move forward” to E. So I can run around like normal, but every time I run past a door it auto opens to a zombie hiding behind it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ghosts of Yotei lets you pause during cut scenes. It doesn’t let you skip most cut scenes, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How many cars driven by humans run over cats each day? Do these outraged people think robotaxis are somehow worse than human drivers? If the humans in the car didn’t see the cat, then it doesn’t matter if it was a robot or a human driving at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting rid of the heat is going to be an issue for that… along with the massive pollution from the many launches required to get this in orbit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making MLS more decentralized⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It still is 100% centralized.

  All “teams” or clubs are just franchise licenses. All players are actually employees of the league, not of the clubs themselves. The league can also dictate which clubs are allowed to sign which players. It’s kind of wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  cordcuttersnews.com/playstation-5-shatters-sales-…

  While it might not feel like anyone cares about consoles, they are still selling a lot of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your points are exactly why it is surprising. Most executives don’t think like me and you. If you give them a million dollars, they say they need 10 million. If you give them a billion dollars, they say they need 10 billion. There is no end to their greed. Look at how Google and Amazon are still trying to strong-arm their industries to get even more billions of dollars. Musk is out there demanding a trillion dollars.

  CEOs and execs at large multinational corps like Intel don’t usually coast. They might make strategic blunders, but they usually push to make as much money as they can. If they fail, they fall back on their golden parachutes. If they win, they get shitloads more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s sort of incredibly about America’s Intel is that they haven’t done any of this shit, clinging to their dead-end chip design long after its expiration date and missing the boom in demand for high end chips entirely.

  This is the most baffling thing to me. How could Intel leadership be so incompetent? They had the inside track to hundreds of billions in revenue and just decided to coast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should hit the gym more, just in case shit pops off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My normal toilet lets me shit remotely. Who the hell has a toilet that only lets them shit at home?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo approved to start testing autonomous vehicles at San Francisco International Airport⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I advocate autonomous cars and have taken multiple Waymos in a couple cities, one limitation Waymos have is when there is a queuing situation like at dropoff/pickup areas. Whenever organized chaos is overcome by humans and nonverbal communication, Waymos just fall flat. Hotel valet areas, office building dropoff areas, narrow streets with parking on both sides when a work truck is parked to unload something, etc. Waymos just stop working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would I want a device that I never use? I only make phone calls roughly 3 times per week. I message multiple times a day, but flip phones had shitty interfaces for typing. The vast majority of my phone use is web search, camera, navigation, and messaging. Flip phones could get better cameras than they used to have. Their screens were too small to do great at web searching. Navigation might work, I guess. Although I used to love my Treo and Pre for the full physical keyboard, I prefer swype typing now to tapping or physical keys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC chair alleges partisan filtering by Gmail; Google says spam filters not ideological⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate Google as much as the next guy, but their response is dead on. If millions of real people are marking the same thing as spam, then the algorithms are forced to identify that thing as spam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I think this is pretty amazing science stuff, the writing is terrible. Here is the progression of the story as written:

  They made butter from carbon…

  Well, it’s actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen…

  OK, it’s actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen, and methane…

  Well, no, it’s actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen, methane, and glycerol…

  Wait, hang on, it’s actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen, methane, glycerol, natural flavor, and lecithin…

  Now, the source of glycerol is in question, because they say this butter is both animal and plant-free. Glycerol can be made synthetically, but it’s WAY more expensive to do it. Also, I’m not seeing any way to create lecithin without plants. They never say what the “natural flavor” is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve boycotted Amazon completely for 25 years, ever since their 1 click patent bullshit. It’s not that hard to do, but people are lazy and cheap.